Pigging Out

That’s great news all round - sending healing vibes to lovely Bryce - ‘ come on Bryce you can do it ‘ 🥰❤️
 
Our monsters trio. ❤️❤️❤️

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We also have let Whitney roam around in the living room on Friday. She's gone nuts and can't believe how big her running area is. She keeps on doing zoomies and making all this happy wheeking noise. She wheeks so loud whenever she notices that Vegas and Bryce are not following her..I just keep on telling her to get used to it coz them two are lazy. 🤣🤣
 
Aw congratulations, Whitney is sooo adorable bless her! :wub::wub: :wub: So glad she’s settled in so well! :luv:
Hope gorgeous Bryce is doing ok now after that abscess poor lad. And hope you’re both ok too! Belated hugs and congrats to you! :) x
 
alpacasqueak said:
Aw congratulations, Whitney is sooo adorable bless her! :wub::wub: :wub: So glad she’s settled in so well! :luv:
Hope gorgeous Bryce is doing ok now after that abscess poor lad. And hope you’re both ok too! Belated hugs and congrats to you! :) x
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Bryce is doing good. We have an appointment with Ellie Whitehead early Tuesday (since she's now back from holiday) to see what she wants to do. Bryce's neck is flat and no lump of abscess, but we can still squeeze some puss. He was given Metronidazole by our local vet coz Zithromax was out of stock when they ordered it. It seems to be doing good with Bryce though.
 
anyar.dris said:
Bryce is doing good. We have an appointment with Ellie Whitehead early Tuesday (since she's now back from holiday) to see what she wants to do. Bryce's neck is flat and no lump of abscess, but we can still squeeze some puss. He was given Metronidazole by our local vet coz Zithromax was out of stock when they ordered it. It seems to be doing good with Bryce though.
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Metronidazole is great for dealing with abscesses but we’ve always given it in combination with Marbocyl too xx
 
When I was cleaning the mess under the chair the other night, I was wondering why the hay in the rack was flat on one end and there was quite a few poops under that rack. Well I found out why..🤦‍♀️

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The holes of the rack is still bigger than Whitney, and I guess she found out it was easier for her to eat the hay and chew the side of the chair at the same time while she's inside the rack. I already had to stop her chewing the sides of the chair, the mat/rug, the legs and sides of the coffee table, and the c&c grids for a few times. She's only been with us 2 weeks tomorrow and she's already so naughty! Oh and Bryce has already taught her to pull their food bowls too! 🤦‍♀️🙈
 
:love::love::love: I think you’re going to have your hands busy with that gorgeous naughty girl @anyar.dris! Or your eyes searching for her when she does the magic vanishing act (Cleo’s always been good at that being so tiny!)! :))
So glad Bryce is doing so great and the metronidazole worked so well for him :love::) x
 
alpacasqueak said:
:love::love::love: I think you’re going to have your hands busy with that gorgeous naughty girl @anyar.dris! Or your eyes searching for her when she does the magic vanishing act (Cleo’s always been good at that being so tiny!)! :))
So glad Bryce is doing so great and the metronidazole worked so well for him :love::) x
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Gawd...she is already so difficult to get back to their main cage at night. She fits on little holes around the living room they are allowed to so she usually makes me chase her going round and round. Hubby says to just rustle bags for her to come to the big cage but sometimes she doesn't go and just wheeks so loud and stays where she is! 🤦‍♀️🙄😂

Update on Bryce:
We've just dropped Bryce off at Derwent Valley Vets. Ellie wants to marsupialise the area with the abscess. The wound has closed on Sunday and we can't flush it. Although Bryce's neck is quite flat and only a tiny lump we can feel in there. She said it's still better to open it up coz since the sack is still there, it may still fill up if we leave it like that.

Hubby and I are currently parked in Sainsbury's Matlock waiting. Ellie said she'll do Bryce right away and he would probably be ready for pick up in 2 hrs more or less.
 
We just got home around 30mins ago. Bryce was fine and was eating. He is currently asleep coz he really can't rest well during car journeys. Ellie said it was a good decision to open him up again coz there is still a pocket of puss. So he stitched the wound open and stitches would need to remove in 2 weeks time. He was prescribed with Zithromax this time with Loxicom. We were also given hibiscrub and a manuka honey to clean the wound.
 
Vegas is having a strong season today, well since this afternoon. She started chasing Whitney nonstop and hump her, which Whitney doesn't like and she squeals a lot. Vegas chases and hump Bryce too, but he is so laid back that he just growls a bit and then won't move, so Vegas gets bored with him. 😂 I guess I have to separate Whitney tonight just so she can have some peace and sleep at night.

Vegas was like this last month too. Since that time, she slowly lost some of her weight. She probably lost around 50-80g in a month. I don't know what was wrong with her though. She eats a lot of hay, but somehow she has been put off with the veggies (cucumber, pepper, some of the salad) apart from some honeydew, tomatoes and romaine lettuce. Her weight this morning is around 1236g. Still a good weight but I'm just wondering why she lost weight. Hubby thinks it's because she is more active now since Whitney arrived. She is only around 3.5 yrs. old to show signs of being old. No other symptoms of illness too. :hmm::hmm:
 
Would it be worth a vet check?
That’s how Priscilla behaved when she developed ovarian cysts.
Hope it’s just a strong season.
 
Merab's Slave said:
Would it be worth a vet check?
That’s how Priscilla behaved when she developed ovarian cysts.
Hope it’s just a strong season.
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Vegas was fine this morning and stopped chasing Whitney. All back to normal today. Not sure though why she stopped eating some of the veggies like cucumber, pepper and some salad leaves. At the moment she's only eating lettuce, spinach, honeydew, tomatoes, kale, and we bought cantaloupe yesterday to try it with her and she ate some of that. She eats loads of hay though so at least that's good.
 
Friday last week, Bryce's weight was down from 1360g the day before to 1314g. Hubby told me that he must've just emptied out before weighing. He was eating that day and was his normal self anyway. The next morning, I weighed him and he was 1275g! So thought there was something wrong. Fed him CC and everything to keep his weight up. During the night feeding, I noticed that he was struggling a bit to chew, not much but there must be something going on. Now remember that he had neck abscess 2x (around Sept 2021 and then Sept this year) that had to be removed. Vet told us they can't find the source where it was coming from, but one emergency exotic vet told us that it might be from teeth/jaw but can't really see any trace otherwise. So last week, we thought that might be the case then.

We phoned Ellie Whitehead but he was on holiday for the week. We phoned Simon & Kim Maddock and they too were on holiday the same week! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ So the only thing we can do was to go to a local vet in Ruthin (Wern Vets) on Monday and ask them for a dental. Well the vet found out that on his bottom left jaw, there was a hole with some dried abscess and a skin from the gum was flapping on top of it. She thinks that area was a dead abscess (or whatever that is) and she flushed it as much as she can. She said she removed the hanging skin and stitched up the sides of the hole so not to make it bigger. With regards to his teeth, apart from a small growth at the back, everything was fine including the front teeth. But she can't really bur the back teeth much coz the tools that they have was for rabbits so it's bigger. She told us to go to another vets if the problem persists. Oh and she said Bryce has lice, which I'm so annoyed that I didn't noticed. She gave him Xeno 450.

During the week, we had to give him lots of CC and blended cucumber, carrots, etc. He was managing to eat some pellets though. He was also prescribed Metronidazole and Baytril, and of course Metacam. But Tuesday night we had to take him to the local vets emergency because we noticed he wasn't pooping. So he was injected emeprid and we were given another dose to inject in the morning. Wednesday morning, we found out he was eating all his poops again (like what happened last year when he was on Metronidazole) so we stopped the antibiotics. We took him back to the vets in the afternoon because we noticed that his poops are also a bit hard and he was having a bit of a hard time pooping. We managed to see the vet who operated on him and she told us all that she did. She checked him and told us he isn't bloated at all and he was perky. His bladder was full though.

Yesterday (Thursday) late afternoon, Bryce stopped eating again. He was fine in the morning and was chasing the girls (first time he got out of the main cage and roam around the living room). He was a bit quiet during the night but he was quite feisty during our feeding time. We can definitely tell he is annoyed with CC feeding now. He still managed to eat some pellets, grass and some salad leaves. So this morning, hubby decided to phone C&R and ask for an emergency appointment with Simon tomorrow (Debbie told us he is back Saturday). He also noticed and heard that Bryce is grinding his teeth more. Receptionist told us to phone first thing in the morning tomorrow for emergency appointment. We'll be leaving very early tomorrow and phoned C&R on the way to get an emergency appointment.

Whew! Sorry for a very long post. Only managed to get some free time today to compose it. 😁

With regards to Vegas, she also has lice. So I had to give her and Whitney some spot on. But we only have the Baephar here, and I'll ask Simon tomorrow for a proper medication tomorrow. Vegas has lost some weight too but at least she is still eating and not a major issue at the moment. Whitney, she's growing gracefully and is a menace! 😂
 
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